Essay Sample Of Net Neutrality

The principle of net neutrality is known as any legal content, services, and applications on the Internet should be treated equally and not open to blocking, favoritism, or degradation by the broadband providers in charge of their transmission. In the US, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has attempted to enforce net neutrality practices through a number of regulations, but each of these attempts have been struck down by the courts after being challenged by broadband providers. In the past the FCC has tried to impose rules that prohibit the blocking of and discrimination of lawful content. In response to this courts have concluded that the FCC does not have the authority to impose the no blocking or no unreasonable discrimination rules on broadband providers without classifying them as telecommunications services.

This time the FCC was more carful as to work around Title II of the Telecommunications Act; the act that broadband providers use as a shield against regulations proposed to enact no blocking or no unreasonable discrimination rules. The FCC also adopted a new name for the term net neutrality: Open Internet (FCC). This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued by the FCC had to include a No Blocking Rule and a No Commercially Unreasonable Practices Rule. The No Blocking Rule prohibited fixed broadband providers from blocking lawful content, applications, and services as well as more specific content. Next, The Commercially Unreasonable Practices Rule replaces the Open Internet Order’s Nondiscrimination Rule that applies to only fixed broadband providers and stops them from engaging in commercially unreasonable practices. These rules worked with the information provided by the D.C. Circuit’s previous decisions striking down net